Incineration, pylons, telemasts, water extraction, waste, wind fatm, coalminers, marina and more waste ... read full story / add a comment

Waste, incineration, a yelemast, an airport and more waste ... read full story / add a comment

Peaceful protest against pollution of Irish rivers. Al protest at national Ploughing Championships. ... read full story / add a comment

Environment Minister John Gormley was interrupted during his speech to the Green Infrastructure conference this morning in Malahide. The environmental campaign group Plane Mad disrupted the conference to express their opposition to another runway at Dublin Airport. The group oppose the runway on the grounds that it will double the aircraft emissions at the airport. These emissions play a dangerous part in causing climate change. Two activists dressed as cartoon criminals mimed building a runway around the podium that Gormley was speaking from. Aircraft noise was simultaneously played from the back of the room. One of the "criminals" moved among the audience passing out information about the proposed new runway form his bag of "swag". The minister was also presented with a letter by the group which he accepted.
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Something is wrong. We grow enough food to feed the planet, yet people starve everyday. Now, as companies look to crops as a fuel source to further feed our energy demands, and food prices continue to rise, Agriculture is very much back on the agenda. ... read full story / add a comment

Landfills, a power line, a Bio Park, an explosives factory and a quarry ... read full story / add a comment

Roadstone has beeen given the go-ahead to quarry the Hill of Allen for the next 50 years without planning permission.

Secret documents obtained by the Hill of Allen Action Group and seen by the Leinster Leader reveal that a combination of cock-up and capitulation by Kildare County Council have consigned even more of the Hill of Allen to history. ... read full story / add a comment

An LNG terminal, explosives factory, incineration, power station and an airport in Counties Clare, Kerry, Meath, Roscommon and Sligo ... read full story / add a comment

Following last years epic celebration when the 7 beacon fires were lit,and Taras Feasting Hall was once again filled with music,songs poems and bardery.The Harps were heard again.
Relighting the fires of our ancestors in defence of the land.Come along hear the call of the ancient halls on October 31st. ... read full story / add a comment

Residents living close to a new apartment complex on Basin Lane in the south west inner city area of Dublin came together tonight(22 Oct 2008) to attend a public meeting organised by People Before Profit to discuss the health implications to the public posed by the installation of mobile phone masts in areas of dense population. ... read full story / add a comment

Cooley Environmental and Health Group has for the last half dozen years or so adopted The Strand Hotel, Omeath, Co Louth, as a center for its varied program of activities. Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes OMD PhD has been secretary of the group over all that period. He now is also acting as PRO for the group. ... read full story / add a comment

A power station in Mayo, pylons in Meath and Kildare, incinerator in Meath, gas terminal in Kerry and a race track in Co Tipperary ... read full story / add a comment

The word is – Shell are pulling out of Glengad and suspending work till early Spring. Shell ‘consultants’ are informing local residents that the beach is being ‘reinstated’ and the work will take a number of weeks.

The Solitaire has moved on and is ‘off hire’ to Shell.

No press release has issued from Shell and they are behind in their weekly ‘progress’ reports to the PAD (Petroleum Affairs Divison) of Minister Eamon Ryan’s Department of Communication, Energy and Natural Resources, which can normally be read here: http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Natural/Petroleum+Affairs+Divis...D.htm
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Incineration, waste, pylons, water extraction and wind turbines ... read full story / add a comment

Boa Fortune at Greenock ... read full story / add a comment

Water extraction, waste, quarrying and some court reports ... read full story / add a comment

Just in case you thought all the talk about the Great Gas Rip Off ® was lefty treehugger claptrap ®, it was confirmed today by no less a personage than the government's own energy watchdog, who turns out to be highly-paid civil servant called Dermot Nolan.

He works for a shower called the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) , and he told the Oireachtas Energy Committee today that as far as the Irish consumer is concerned, the gas from the Corrib field may as well be coming from Outer Mongolia (he didn't use those exact words).
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A number of groups from Erris and Co. Mayo went to meet with two government ministers, Éamon Ryan (Natural Resources) and Éamon Ó Cuív (Gaeltacht & Community Affairs) in Ballina today. These groups included Shell to Sea, Pobal Chill Chomáin, and Pobal le Chéile; a number of Erris fishermen accompanied by the parish priest of Kilcommon also met the ministers despite not having been invited. The ministers also met with the Pro- Gas Mayo Group and the Council for the West, organisations that could be candidly described as ‘astroturf’ (i.e. fake grassroots) and stalking horses for Shell. Following these encounters, the ministers met with the TDs for Mayo and county councillors from Erris, to round off what was a cynical PR exercise by an alarmed clueless government. ... read full story / add a comment

Water extraction, wind farm, telemast. rehabilitation at last at Gortmore and latest from the National Miners Group ... read full story / add a comment

Whilst the solitaire is in for repairs, we'd thought we'd remind the government that activists haven't taken their eye off the ball. We also thought we would dedicate this action to Maura. ... read full story / add a comment